BIND 9 to BIND 8 downgrade
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Feb 6 20:51:00 UTC 2002
Jim McAtee <jmcatee at mediaodyssey.com> wrote:
> Because of the problems with the Win32 port of BIND 9.2, I'm in the midst of
> switching our Win2k BIND 9 nameservers to BIND 8.3.1. Formerly, we were
> running BIND 4.9, so I'm not completely familiar with the configuration
> differences between BIND 8 and 9.
What is your problems ?
How about running bind-9 on un*x instead ?
You _could_ use your old hardware, given free/net/open BSD you could be
installed & running within a few hours.
> Will master zone files work well if they're unchanged from BIND 9? A
> typical zone file on our servers looks like the one shown below. Is the
> $TTL directive recognized by BIND 8.3, or would this zone file have a
> default TTL on records of just 20 minutes?
> $TTL 1d
> @ IN SOA ns1.ourdomain.com. hostmaster.ourdomain.com. (
> 2001112701 ; serial
> 4h ; refresh
> 30m ; retry
> 28d ; expire
> 20m ) ; minimum
> 7d IN NS ns1.ourdomain.com.
> 7d IN NS ns2.ourdomain.com.
> IN MX 10 mail.ourdomain.com.
> IN MX 20 mail2.ourdomain.com.
> IN A 204.138.18.100
> www IN A 204.138.18.100
> In the options section of the configuration file, we use at least a couple
> of BIND 9 specific options. Is there a BIND 8 equivalent to notify-source
> or transfer-source? When I set up the servers under BIND 9, I believe that
> these options were necessary to make notifies and transfers function when
> running on machines with multiple IP addresses.
> acl "localmachines" {
> 204.138.47.0/25;
> 192.168.1.0/24;
> };
> acl "secondarydns" {
> 216.138.18.101;
> 216.138.18.84;
> };
> options {
> directory "c:\named";
> listen-on { 204.138.47.6; };
> notify-source 204.138.47.6;
> transfer-source 204.138.47.6;
> allow-transfer { "localmachines"; "secondarydns"; };
> };
> Thanks,
> Jim
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Peter Håkanson
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